Real Science

I have an obsession with the false "science" called creationism and the general War on Knowledge conducted by Christian extremists. Despite their lies and misinformation, my knowledge of evolution does not make me an unChristian. However, I feel those who except creationism/Intelligent Design as science have poor faith and a lack of understanding about what evolution is actually about. Others who want it taught in our public schools desire an American Theocracy

Now that there is a new fossil discovery, I feel a little vindicated. Here is a portion of the NYTimes Article :


Several well-preserved skeletons of the fossil fish were uncovered in sediments of former stream beds in the Canadian Arctic, 600 miles from the North Pole, it is being reported on Thursday in the journal Nature. The skeletons have the fins and scales and other attributes of a giant fish, four to nine feet long.

But on closer examination, scientists found telling anatomical traits of a transitional creature, a fish that is still a fish but exhibiting changes that anticipate the emergence of land animals — a predecessor thus of amphibians, reptiles and dinosaurs, mammals and eventually humans.

.....this should undercut the creationists' argument that there is no evidence in the fossil record of one kind of creature becoming another kind.

One creationist Web site (emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/evid1.htm) declares that "there are no transitional forms," adding: "For example, not a single fossil with part fins part feet has been found. And this is true between every major plant and animal kind."

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